Verb

(en verb)

To look down upon from a place that is over or above; to look over or view from a higher position; to rise above, so as to command a view of

to overlook a valley from a hill

Hence: To supervise; to watch over; sometimes, to observe secretly

to overlook a gang of laborers; to overlook one who is writing a letter

To inspect; to examine; to look over carefully or repeatedly.

To look upon with an evil eye; to bewitch by looking upon; to fascinate.

To fail to notice; to look over and beyond (anything) without seeing it; to miss or omit in looking.

To pretend not to have noticed, especially a mistake; to pass over without censure or punishment.

Verb

(en verb)

(label) To encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions.

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, title= The Three Corpse Trick, chapter=5 , passage=The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.}}

*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)

, title=(The China Governess) , chapter=3 citation , passage=Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine, while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry-hung wall behind.}}

* 2005 , (Plato), Sophist . Translation by Lesley Brown. .

and this way they get rid of those grand and stubborn opinions that surround them.

(label) To enclose or confine something on all sides so as to prevent escape.

To pass around; to travel about; to circumnavigate.

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